Utilization of Care Coordination and Community Resources to Address Diabetes Capella 4900 Assessment 3

Benefits of Care Coordination and Community Resources Utilization

Care coordination is required in treating and managing chronic conditions like diabetes. Since, a multidisciplinary team is involved in managing diabetes; therefore, it requires effective collaboration and coordination in providing care treatment to diabetic patients. Care coordination practice promotes seamless communication and every healthcare professional related to a diabetes patient acquires the patient’s medical and health needs and works accordingly which results in fewer medical and health errors and improves patient safety (Karam et al., 2021).

Moreover, the use of community resources such as community organizations established for diabetes like The American Diabetes Association and community groups for diabetes is effective in diabetes management. The guidelines provided by these community resources such as ADA act as benchmark measures to compare your clinical and nursing practice in diabetes. Nurses can use them to provide authentic and correct care treatment to diabetes patients.

The community groups such as online or physical support groups for diabetes can be motivating for diabetics to improve their self-management of diabetes and can learn from people who have survived diabetes with healthy lifestyles and medication adherence (Sauchelli, 2020).

Current Professional Practice

In my current nursing practice, care coordination, and community resources are maximally utilized as evident through literature to provide patients with effective and authentic care treatment. The potential barriers to implementing care coordination in a healthcare setup can be poor communication among healthcare providers and lack of interoperable devices such as electronic health records which facilitate care coordination.

Moreover, engaging patients in care treatment and promoting their compliance with medication and care plans is another potential barrier to care coordination. The potential barriers to utilizing community resources can be a lack of awareness and knowledge about community organizations and support groups for diabetes and distrust of these organizations and their work.

State Board Nursing Practice Standards and/or Government/ Organizational Policies on Health Technology, Care Coordination, and Community Resources

The American Nursing Association (ANA) supports the use of healthcare technologies like EHR, remote monitoring, and telehealth to improve the quality of care for patients. The ANA collaboration with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has been implicated in Nursing Informatics Standard practices that address the use of health information technology in nursing practices. The ANA also provides nursing practice standards for nurses which include the use of care coordination to provide coordinated and collaborative care treatment to patients with any disease.

This coordination of care will promote patient-centered care as all health professionals communicate with each other to provide effective therapy to patients. The ANA policy of care coordination makes healthcare workers aware of implementing it and promotes the effective provision of care treatment. The ANA also advocates the use of community resources for patients and encourages nurses to collaborate with community partners such as community health centers and non-profit organizations such as ADA in case of diabetes.

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This enhances patients’ access to community resources that can improve their knowledge of diabetes and promotes self-management of diabetes. Furthermore, ANA guides nurses to educate patients about community resources that they can take benefit from and alleviate their symptoms and complications through the services provided by particular community organizations and groups (Brunt & Russell, 2022).

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established an enforcement policy that promoted the use of non-invasive remote monitoring devices to enable patient monitoring when COVID-19 emerged. In this enforcement policy, FDA expanded the use of remote monitoring devices and enhanced their availability to reduce the threats from emerging infectious agents like coronavirus (FDA, 2020). This opened up a way for healthcare systems to advance the use of this policy as digital health and remote monitoring is promoted ever since COVID-19 emerged.

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